Journal for the Study of the Old Testament

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal for the Study of the Old Testament is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Surfing with Jonah: Reading Jonah as a Postcolonial Trauma Narrative4
Deuteronomy 14.3–21: An Early Exemplar of Rewritten Scripture?3
Behemoth’s Penis, Yahweh’s Might: Competing Bodies in the Book of Job3
The book of Jonah and the theme of exile2
Israelite or Moabite? Ethnicity in the book of Ruth2
The Main Character of the Book of Esther: The Contribution of the Textual Divisions and the Assigned Titles of the Book of Esther to Uncovering Its Protagonist2
Internal Focalization in 1 Samuel – a new perspective on Jonathan’s love for David2
Together in Guilt: David, Jonadab, and the Rape of Tamar2
The Resilience of the Captive Girl Child in 2 Kings 52
Morality and mortality: The dialogical interpretation of Psalm 90 in the book of Job2
Cultic Images of Jerusalem in Lamentations 2:1–81
Voices from below: The role of anonymous women’s opinion in the birth of Israel’s monarchy1
Nebuchadnezzar and the animal mind (Daniel 4)1
(More) On the Precative Qatal in Lamentations 3.56-61: Updating the Argument1
bĕ-rēʾšît, “With ‘Wisdom,’” in Genesis 1.1 (MT)1
Goliath among the Giants: Monster Decapitation and Capital Display in 1 Samuel 17 and Beyond1
Are economics a key to dating Urdeuteronomium? A response to Sandra Lynn Richter1
Is Eliphaz a false prophet? The vision in Job 4.12-211
Moses, the Lifter of the Sky: A Novel Reading of Exodus 17:8–16 in Light of the Heliopolitan Cosmogony1
‘Like the snail that dissolves’: Construction of Identity of Psalmist and Enemy in the Lament Psalms of the Individual1
Reading the Book of Habakkuk through a Lens of Cultural Trauma1
On the Threshold: Liminality in the Stories of the Concubine of Gibeah and Ruth1
Naming Jerusalem: Poetry and the Identity of the Personified City in Lamentations 1-21
Homosexuality, the Holiness Code, and Ritual Pollution: A Case of Mistaken Identity1
‘No longer will you call me ‘my Ba’al’’: Hosea’s polemic and the semantics of ‘Ba’al’ in 8th century B.C.E. Israel1
A network of conventional and deliberate metaphors in Psalm 221
Duelling dynasties: A proposal concerning Ezekiel’s sign-act of the two sticks1
Planting gardens: Mesopotamian influence on a Hebrew trope in Jeremiah 291
Parallel Structures in Judges and the Formation of the Book1
Did Hagar give Ishmael up for dead? Gen. 21.14-21 re-visited1
What is חֶ֫סֶד‎? A frame-semantic approach1
Eglon’s Fat and Ehud’s Oracle: A Reconsideration of Humour in Judges 3.12–301
Does the Hebrew Bible construct a social trauma? Three case studies1
YHWH in a Suit: bôd YHWH as the Regalia of the Priestly God1
Index of Authors0
A Time to Throw Away Stones: Qohelet’s Enigmatic Reference to Stones as a Hinge for the Themes of War and Peace in the Time Poem0
On the tedious and monotonous repetitions in the Tabernacle accounts: a reassessment0
Index of Series0
9. Apocrypha and Postbiblical Studies0
A new approach to Jephthah’s vow: Antanaclasis (Judges 10–11)0
Books Also Received0
An Uprooted, Withered Cedar: A New Reading of Ezekiel’s Depiction of Jehoiachin’s Exile0
Yhwh, Moses, and Pharaoh: Masculine competition as rhetoric in the exodus narrative0
3. History, Geography and Sociology0
Stillness and salvation: Reading Psalm 46 in its context0
Ceremonial Celebrations Outside the Temple Compound in Ezra-Nehemiah in Babylonian Ritual Context0
The Anti-Levite of Judges 17-180
CORRIGENDUM to Theodicy in an ironical sense: The Joban Wager and the portrait of folly0
The Hebel World, Its Ambiguities and Contradictions0
A Blameworthy Burial: A Methodology for Inner-Biblical Allusion with a Case Study from Chronicles0
Text and Intertexts: A Proposal for Understanding Proverbs 30.1b0
Corrigendum0
Law and Emotion in Moral Repair: Circumscribing Infringement0
10. The Dead Sea Scrolls0
“Restructuring the Symbolic Universe”: Resilience through Literary and Ideological Reframing in Isaiah 2.2–4(5)0
The Solomonic Temple of Josephus’ Antiquities0
Are God’s ‘Good Plans’ not Good Enough? The Place and Significance of Jer 29.15 in Jeremiah’s Letter to the Exiles0
Why Did YHWH Seek to Bring Disaster to Absalom? (2 Sam. 17.14b)0
Justice for whom? A dynamic interpretation of Isaiah 51.1–80
2. Archaeology and Epigraphy0
Index of Authors0
The House That Built Me: The ‘House of God’ and Its Role in the Construction of Fear in Nehemiah 6.1–150
5. Studies on Specific Books I. Pentateuch(Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy)0
Marginal characters: A strategy of persuasion in 1–2 Samuel0
The Most High God vs. Nabû: A God of Letters, Wisdom, and Fate Who Can(not) Read, Understand, or Foretell0
The Society for Old Testament Study0
An Analysis of Concluding Verbs in the Priestly Code: A Contextual Grammatical Approach0
Let There Be Cain: A Clash of Imaginations in Genesis 40
Defacing the name: YHWH and ‘ZTWD0
2. Archaeology and Epigraphy0
Index of Series0
Wisdom and the fear of YHWH: Rethinking their relationship in Proverbs 1–90
An attempt to identify the birds of Leviticus 11.13–19 using onomatopoeia0
A new Perspective on Jonathan – his covenant with David and his ultimate choice0
The Aesthetics of Biblical Acrostics0
11. Philology and Grammar0
9. Apocrypha and Postbiblical Studies0
Playing favourites: Israel and Judah in the marriage metaphor of Jeremiah 30
10. The Dead Sea Scrolls0
‘The myth of the empty exile’: A Comparative Exploration into Ancient Biblical Exile and Modern Korean Exile0
Books Also Received0
Comical moments and comical characterisations in Tobit: The undermining of self-righteous piety, simplistic retribution, and limited Yahwism0
7. Law, Religion and Theology0
Index of Publishers0
11. Philology and Grammar0
4. Texts and Versions0
Index of Publishers0
Endangered or Dangerous? YHWH’s Presence and Impurity in Levitical Perspective0
10. The Dead Sea Scrolls0
8. The Life and Thought of the Surrounding Peoples0
11. Philology and Grammar0
8. The Life and Thought of the Surrounding Peoples0
Index of Series0
Offerings Matter: Revisiting the Sabbath Transgression in Nehemiah 13 and the So-Called Sabbath Reform0
8. The Life and Thought of the Surrounding Peoples0
4. Texts and Versions0
9. Apocrypha and Postbiblical Studies0
An Infelicitous Feast: Ritualized Consumption and Divine Rejection in Amos 6.1–70
Psalm 120 and the question of authorship of the songs of Ascents0
Rejection Realized: Saul, the Evil Spirit and the Loss of Kingship0
Index of Publishers0
1. General (including Introductions and Collections of Essays)0
1. General (including Introductions and Collections of Essays)0
The Woman from Tekoa (2 Sam. 14) and the Character of Judicial Wisdom in Ancient Israel0
Royally Enticing, Royally Forgetting: The Contribution of Psalm 45 within Its Canonical Context0
10. The Dead Sea Scrolls0
Index of Reviewers0
King Solomon and the ‘Anatomy’ of Wisdom0
1. General (including Introductions and Collections of Essays)0
Transitive Analogies and the Meaning of Balaam’s Origin: A Literary Analysis0
Index of Publishers0
Realigning the Cosmos: The intertextual image of judgment and restoration in Zephaniah0
The ironic syllogism: A rhetorical use of unmarked questions0
Moral and ethical values in structural patterns of coercive acts in Hebrew Bible narrative0
8. The Life and Thought of the Surrounding Peoples0
True and False Worship in the Prophecy of Zephaniah0
Economics and Urdeuteronomium: A response to Kåre Berge, Diana Edelman, Philippe Guillaume, and Benedetta Rossi0
The Ram of Ordination and Qualifying the Priests to Eat Sacrifices0
3. History, Geography and Sociology0
6. Literary Studies and History of Interpretation0
Blood Manipulation in Hezekiah’s Re-inauguration of the Temple in Chronicles0
Index of Reviewers0
Cumulative Part-Whole Relations as a Verbal and Visual Rhetorical Strategy: Song of Songs 7 and Composite Beings of the Southern Levant0
7. Law, Religion and Theology0
What is Old Greek Daniel chapter 8 about?0
Vision signals and the language of vision descriptions in the prophets0
Editorial fatigue and the relationship between 2 Kings 18–20 and Isaiah 36–390
Did Lot Get His Just Desserts? Trauma, Revenge, and Re-enactment in Genesis 19.30-380
“Die Empörten Weiber”: Gender, Authority and Protestant Modernism in Jeremiah 440
To what extent is the Moses story modelled on other biblical stories?0
5. Studies on Specific Books0
The ancestors’ masculinities in Genesis0
‘Other laws’: Haman’s accusation against the Jews in the book of Esther0
Books Also Received0
Priestly Disability and Centralization of the Cult in the Holiness Code0
6. Literary Studies and History of Interpretation0
5. Studies on Specific Books0
‘Seeing You Have Not Withheld Your Son’: An Overlooked Motif in Genesis 22?0
Song of Songs as political satire and emotional refuge: Subverting Solomon’s gilded regime0
4. Texts and Versions0
7. Law, Religionand Theology0
The function of alliteration in the prosaic and poetic accounts of the Deborah cycle0
The Battle with Amalek (Exod. 17.8–16): When God Trusts in Man0
An alliterative-typographical device inPsalm37: Divine destruction of the wicked, enacted in real time0
3. History, Geography and Sociology0
Psalm 74 and social identity0
One or many? The grammatical number of suffixed nouns as a text-critical problem0
Jeremiah’s Laments as Effective Speech0
Society for Old Testament Study Book List 20230
Index of Reviewers0
Reshaping Jeremiah: Scribal strategies and the prophet like Moses0
Narratological implications of the differences between the Masoretic Text and the Septuagint: 1 Samuel 10.5 and 13.1–4 as a case study0
Moabite women, Transjordanian women, and incest and exogamy: The gendered dimensions of boundaries in the Hebrew Bible0
The Inheritance of (Wicked) Speech: A Reconsideration of Job 20.290
The Aqedah as ‘template’? Genesis 22 and 1 Kings 17–180
What has Leviticus 17 to do with Deuteronomy 12.20–27? The literary relationship between the Deuteronomic and Holiness Codes on cult centralization and animal slaughter0
Who is the holy seed?: Purity and identity in the Restoration Community0
Index of Authors0
5. Studies on Specific Books0
The Passover as inauguration of Israel’s departure from Sinai: interpretive potential of analysing narrative technique for discerning literary structure in Numbers 1–100
2. Archaeology and Epigraphy0
Going Vertical with Love Thy Neighbor: Exegetical Use of Scripture in Leviticus 19.18b0
Mountains Shall Drip Sweet Wine from the Temple: Joel’s Interpretation of the Epilogue of Amos0
Resilience through Disclosure and Meaning Making in Qoheleth and the Babylonian Theodicy0
7. Law, Religion and Theology0
9. Apocryphaand Postbiblical Studies0
Worship as Social Creativity: Social Identity and the Form of Psalm 790
“Naomi the Nurse: Obed’s Ambiguous Identity Transmission”0
6. Literary Studies and History of Interpretation0
The golden calf of Bethel and Judah’s mimetic desire of Israel0
Index of Series0
David, Once and Future King? A Closer Look at the Postscript of Psalm 72.200
Engaging Westermann and the Assumptive World0
Index of Authors0
The Prevalence and Purpose of the ‘Assyria-Egypt’ Motif in the Book of Hosea0
Children of the night: The portrayal of children in the book of Lamentations0
The Masoretic Text of Haggai 2.7b in light of verbal valency patterns0
1. General (Including Introductions and Collections of Essays)0
Books Also Received0
Remembering the lost ark: The ark narrative in its contexts0
High-handed sin and the Promised Land: The rhetorical relationship between law and narrative in Numbers 150
4. Texts and Versions0
6. Literary Studies and History of Interpretation0
Index of Reviewers0
Keep in touch, stay in sight: locally-interpreted overt subjects in 1QIsaa0
‘For a Man Is Born to Suffer’: Intertextuality between Job 4–5 and Gen. 2.4b–3.240
11. Philology and Grammar0
Hearing the ‘Voice’ of the Niphal: A Response to Ellen van Wolde0
Honor in the Cult: Leviticus 10 in Socio-Rhetorical Perspective0
2. Archaeology and Epigraphy0
Of monsters and men: Reading Daniel with the Liber de Morte (Metz Epitome)0
3. History, Geography and Sociology0
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